User talk:Madleser

Testlayout for the main page (work in progress)

I was working on a new main page to make the wiki look a bit more welcoming. This is just a temporary solution until the GNUstep homepage moves to the wiki (if at all), then the plain but elegant look of www.gnustep.org should be ported. The idea here is to move away from the "wiki == place for jotting down quick notes" attitude.

Here's a first mock-up. I lifted most of the style and tables-code from the Wikipedia frontpage, hope nobody hunts me down for that~

• Regarding the news box, I was considering having a page with 2 headers ("news" and "older news") and including the content from one heading as the news to minimize the tedious moving of old news to the archives. Well, it seems that there's no direct way of doing this, making macro programming necessary... which I am not bored enough to do. Meh. I'll leave it at simply including the news template since it's easier to edit that than to wade though all the tables-code here.
• The PoeIcon is a placeholder.
• If a new part of core or dev-apps is released, someone's gotta update the gnustep-core/dev-apps package AND the corresponding windows installer :P
• Put the "Users" and "Developers" boxes in the navigation on the left or maybe in a template or a simple float? I opt for the nav box since that's what it's for: MediaWiki:Sidebar + some CSS makeup.

I can't modify MediaWiki:Sidebar, so someone who can please test/apply this (given the current state of the wiki, nobody will notice if it explodes or links lead nowhere ;)):

* navigation
** mainpage|mainpage
** portal-url|portal
** currentevents-url|currentevents
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges
** randompage-url|randompage
** helppage|help
** sitesupport-url|sitesupport

* users
** Applications|Applications
** User Guides|Guides
** Get Help|Get Help
** Report Bugs|Report Bugs

* developers
** Project Development
** Developer Guides|Guides
** Foundation|Base API (Foundation)
** AppKit|GUI API (AppKit)

(Testlayout removed, already in use.)

I really like this!!

This looks great. GJC

Indeed -- cbv

Thanks. Now, lemme skim the help on wikipedia/mediawiki (there's a lot in there, urg) for some suitable template-voodoo to select a specific heading.. I'm also planning to import wikipedia's software infobox template, create a new category "Applications" and use that as a replacement for the app db on www.gnustep.org. I'm also looking for template messages ("this is a stub", "this needs to be cleaned up", ...) and such to flag articles (Writing portable code is out of date concerning Nibs), how to have these articles appear on a special page and so on. Also, I want to move the "users" and "developers" box to the MediaWiki:Sidebar and maybe use some CSS for coloring them. Madleser

seconded -- cbv

Software Template Test

Steal this from [1] and copy all the .infobox stuff from [2] to MediaWiki:Monobook.css. I can't edit the .css file.

Response

The reason I'm getting the information from the website and putting it here (straight) is because I was under the impression the Wiki was going to replace the website. So, what I'm doing is just getting the information here. I'm also keeping in mind that most of the information on the website is so outdated it's not even funny.

For the applications pages, as you can see I'm using a different format than the website, but, in my opinion, it does need to contain the same information and then some more.

You do bring a good point though, there needs to be some standardized was of doing things in the wiki so that similar pages don't look completly different. I'm going to start a discussion on the mailing list about it. Stefanbidi